what's up

Ok, I haven't been good about keeping everyone up to date lately. Spring sprung and we have been non stop. So sorry! Let's see my home away from home has been the ball field. Sam is catching again this year and Jonathan is help coaching. Jenna, Jonathan, & I took the hunter safety coarse and we all passed. Sam had a lighthouse project due. Jenna's science team won 2nd place. The twins had spirit week. We had an Easter Egg hunt at the church and an Easter play. We really didn't get a full spring break because of the snow days but we did get the chance to take the girls to Pigeon Forge to ride the go carts and wonder around. We took the Girl Scouts to Reidhill to see all the new babies. Action Fest came to town and Sam got to meet the guy that fly in the jet pack and all the girls drooled over the stunt guys. Jonathan and I took the boater safety coarse and I beat him by 2 points on the test..98! We gave an ice cream party to the winning class at Valley for the class that sold the most cancer sun's and the twins raised $89.00 for the American Caner Society. Asheville got a visit from the President of the United States..traffic was backed up everywhere but the cool part was the cargo plane C30 picking the cars up. I went on the twins field trip to the zoo, the IMAX movie, and then to fun stop to play ( it made me love my girls...some of those kids). We celebrated Mother's Day Greek style. And this past weekend we got to baby sit the puppy Pearl. It's hard to believe that May is coming to an end. Maybe summer will slow us done...I dawt it!

Heart Walk

The girls and I went to Greenville SC on Saturday to do the heart walk. As we drove early that morning we watched the clouds roll in. We were prepared to walk in the rain we did it last year. But the sun came out and it was beautiful. We did this 5K to get the awareness out about heart disease. We have lost many special people due to heart attacks or strokes and with our family history this is an important one. We walked in memory of Granny, Memaw, Papa, Uncle Lou and in honor of our Bear and Uncle Ike. Do you know your numbers? Do you know the signs of a stroke or heart attach? More women die of heart disease than anything else. So love your heart and love the ones around. Spread the word..because this is the only heart you are going to get!

amazing

You know it takes someone real special to knock you off your feet. Someone who loves me and my girls as much. That goes with the flow and jumps in and helps out. He must really love me or he is really crazy! But Jonathan has done it again.
He is teaching Jenna how to shoot a gun so they can do the 4H shooting club. Breath Bear they are going to be safe. He is starting her off with a bb gun and then will move her to a 22 after she completes her hunter safety coarse and he thinks she is ready. She is so excited and hit around the bulls eye a few times.
And like he has a lot of extra time with everything else he does Jonathan is going to help coach Sam's softball team. They have already started practicing for try outs in March. As long as no one breaks anything (teeth) we will be good.
Spring is in the air and the schedules are getting busy again...wait a minute did they ever slow down?

zoo

For Sam's birthday we went to Columbia to the zoo. The Riverbanks is one of the best zoos I have been to. They had so many animals..penguins, fish, alligators, giraffes, elephants, monkeys, birds, and so much more all in an animal friend environment and up close so you could experience it. They also have a full garden and walking trails. The best part was the weather. It got up to 60 degrees and we were all loving it.
We spent the day at the zoo and ended it with BBQ at Maurice's. What a great day!

Nature Center contest

All 3 girls did the festival of knowledge this past weekend for the nature center. Tori did a project on lady bugs, Sam did hers on rollie pollies and Jenna did one on lunar moths. All 3 girls did great (thanks to the Bear for her help on all those snow days). Tori and Sam received ribbons and Jenna won the category.

Sam's birthday

I can't believe my baby turned 10. I am getting to old. Sammy went to school but I took her out to lunch and we all got together for supper for pizza.

more and more snow

OK whoever is praying for snow you can stop now
the kids have missed a total of 10 days for snow not counting the 2 hr delays and early releases...
where is spring